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Police in Regional Division #7 have managed to arrest the alleged suspect in the murder of Bryan Melville.

Lowering the jail terms yesterday against the convicts in the murder of Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, the Guyana Court of Appeal for the second day in a row criticised the base sentence of 60 years applied by Justice Navindra Singh While the superior court upheld directions given by the trial judge in the conduct of the case, it reiterated the absence of reasons behind the 60-year base sentence used by Judge Singh for murder.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s armed forces would respect a victory by leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva in this year’s presidential race, two retired generals told Reuters, adding to recent signs by military brass distancing themselves from the political project of far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro.

A Heathburn Village, East Bank Berbice man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with two counts of armed robbery committed on an East Bank Berbice couple which left one of the victims hospitalized with a gunshot injury.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – OPEC+ will likely stick to existing policies of moderate output increases yesterday, five sources from the producers’ group said even as it expects demand to rise to new peaks this year and as oil prices trade near their highest since 2014.

In a judgment released yesterday, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in its Appellate Jurisdiction, allowed the appeal of the Barbados Commissioner of Police, in the matter of Commissioner of Police v Stephen Alleyne.

(Trinidad Guardian) A decomposed body that was found at the Heights of Aripo on Friday has been identified as that of a Cocorite woman who was reported missing on the weekend, 21-year-old Keithisha Cudjoe, a mother of one.

Flood-affected residents of Kwakwani, Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice (Region Ten) have been provided with water tanks and other emergency flood relief resources as a result of a collaboration between the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), the Canadian High Commission, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

BISSAU,  (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo survived an attempted coup yesterday but said many members of the security forces had been killed repelling an attack on democracy that may have been linked to drug trafficking.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Part of a major expressway collapsed yesterday above a construction site in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo where Spain’s Acciona SA was excavating a tunnel for a new subway line.

A company that recruits workers for one of ExxonMobil’s prime contractors, SBM Offshore has agreed to rectify the overtime rates paid to Guyanese working on the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) platform.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Amnesty International accused Israel yesterday of subjecting Palestinians to a system of apartheid founded on policies of “segregation, dispossession and exclusion” that it said amounted to crimes against humanity.

A company that recruits workers for ExxonMobil has agreed to rectify the overtime rates paid to Guyanese working on the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) platform.

The Ministry of Home Affairs,  the Guyana Police Force and the GDF Air Corps are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding an illegal aircraft bearing Venezuelan registration # YV506 which was discovered abandoned off an illegal airstrip in Kuruduni some 20 km from the Kurupukari crossing.

QUITO, (Reuters) – At least 14 people died and another 32 were injured in a landslide in the north of Ecuador’s capital Quito, the country’s emergency response office said today, as firefighter rescue crews continue searching homes and streets covered by mud.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – A single lightning bolt that leapt across three U.S.

(Reuters) – American actress Whoopi Goldberg has issued an apology after facing a backlash for her comments on the Holocaust saying it “was not about race”.

(Trindiad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says corruption in the Public Service has been flourishing.

APNU+AFC frontbencher Amanza Walton-Desir yesterday hammered the government for its perceived failure to address the effects of inflation and to take better care of the neediest citizens as she opened the parliamentary debate on the $552.9 billion national budget.

Canadian oil explorers CGX Energy Inc and Frontera Energy Corpora-tion yesterday announced a commercial oil find off the Corentyne coast and this is to be further evaluated.